where giving up something as trivial as a perceived notion of privacy over a bit of practically useless data
You're forgetting the lesson of the chicken wing.
For years producers had all these chicken wings left over and usually ground them up and put them into animal feed. One day someone invented the "buffalo wing" and suddenly all those trivial, practically useless by-products became valuable.
I changed my name to Peter_NoFacebook Jones, but now I also want to opt out of Google+.
I tried various iterations of the following:
Peter_NoFacebook_noPlus Jones
Peter_NoFacebook_NoPlus Jones
Peter_noPlus_NoFacebook Jones
Peter_NoPlus_NoFacebook Jones...but none of them seem to be working.
You forgot Peter _NoFacebook_NoPlus_NoTwitter_NoDoubleClick... Jones.
The press is the fourth branch of government and it is doing a horrible job.
The press is just a marketing tool. Whether you're left, center, right, liberal, or conservative you just tune in to CNN, FoxNews, MSNBC, etc. to hear what you want to hear. Kinda like what was said here
If you don't mind adds but don't want to be tracked, e-mail the website admins and tell them so. They may not be aware their adds are tracking and switch to non-tracking ones. It's a long shot, but even if they don't change, at least you've regained your peace of mind knowing the website owners don't care if you see their adds.
While I appreciate your suggestion, that places a lot of burden me. After figuring out what email address to use, I have no guarantee that my email won't go straight to the bit bucket or worse, be flagged as spam. Trying to pay my bills is what takes up my time. Plus, I would have to think if these web site administrators don't understand the principles of tracking, then they're incompetent.
End-to-end encryption keeps them from knowing squat about your browsing habits other than the fact that you prefer Google. Of course, Google knows all.
You'll have to run your own DNS or else they'll still know.
After I installed Ghostery, I was amazed at how many trackers some sites use. One site I went to had 32 trackers. After disabling most of them, guess what. No ads, which was really not my goal. I don't mind the ads since I figure that helps a site pay for itself, but I'm not a Facebook user and I don't want FB tracking me.
And another thought, all that tracking is sure going to eat into any bandwidth cap.
I worked for a company that couldn't fire a union worker even though he was caught stealing a truck load of paint from the company. Had a conversation with another union worker who said he worked for the union.
Sounds like you've never shopped at Newegg. Each product has details, reviews, and lots of photos. Nicely laid out. Once you've been to Newegg you wonder why Amazon, Wal-mart, Tiger, and other can't do as well.
And so we wind up with a browser that doesn't let you set the default font size. Talk about an affront to Accessibility. I mean, as I get older I'm actually going blind. For real. I've been nearsighted all my life, and once you hit 40 years old you stop being able to see things up close. So font selection becomes this life-or-death thing: it can lock you out of the product completely. But the Chrome team is flat-out arrogant here: they want to build a zero-configuration product, and they're quite brazen about it, and Fuck You if you're blind or deaf or whatever. Hit Ctrl-+ on every single page visit for the rest of your life.
New stuff is fine; just let me have the old way (i.e. status bar, menu, View>Page Source) and don't send me to about:config
Furthermore, if our much-vaunted, Constitutionally-protected "free press" (term used very loosely) had not sold out or fallen down on the job, we might be able to make better decisions. Knowledge is power.
I think our "free press" found out is was more fun to "program" us than "inform" us.
Pick your own analogy:
So, when the PS3 came out, there were how many hundreds of PS3 titles already available, because you could play PS2 games on the original PS3?
So, when the XBOX360 came out, there were how many hundreds of XBOX360 titles already available, because you could play XBOX games on it?
So, when the Wii came out, there were how many hundreds of Wii titles already available, because you could play GameCube games on it?
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Sorry, I had mod points yesterday. +1 Common Sense
where giving up something as trivial as a perceived notion of privacy over a bit of practically useless data
You're forgetting the lesson of the chicken wing.
For years producers had all these chicken wings left over and usually ground them up and put them into animal feed. One day someone invented the "buffalo wing" and suddenly all those trivial, practically useless by-products became valuable.
Everything should be opt-in. Never opt-out.
I would be fine with opt-out if all it took was appending "_notax" or "_freeman" to my name.
Hi, Bob_UncleSamPleaseTaxMeIntoOblivionSinceImSureYoullSpendItMoreWiselyThanIWill Smith here.
Nobody can look on a map and see your name,
You forgot about teh haxXorz. If everyone is so OK with this, why not let Google (and others) collect your credit card number too.
Hello,
I changed my name to Peter_NoFacebook Jones, but now I also want to opt out of Google+.
I tried various iterations of the following:
Peter_NoFacebook_noPlus Jones ...but none of them seem to be working.
Peter_NoFacebook_NoPlus Jones
Peter_noPlus_NoFacebook Jones
Peter_NoPlus_NoFacebook Jones
You forgot Peter _NoFacebook_NoPlus_NoTwitter_NoDoubleClick... Jones.
Is there a current highest version number record?
We used to run DOS/VS version 34 on da mainframe years ago.
The press is the fourth branch of government and it is doing a horrible job.
The press is just a marketing tool. Whether you're left, center, right, liberal, or conservative you just tune in to CNN, FoxNews, MSNBC, etc. to hear what you want to hear. Kinda like what was said here
Perhaps what we need is a fourth branch of government, smallish and economical, ...
No branch of our government will remain smallish nor economical!
but Ron Paul's solution to the high cost of college is to simply cut off anyone who isn't already rich.
Spoken like a true Democrat!
You do realize that if you're rich you won't need a student loan?
but you don't get all sorts of popups and new tabs spamming you about it like with firefox.
Is this a bug or feature?
I vote bug!
Exactly how is this different than taking my money to the riverboat and laying it down on blackjack?
With blackjack you could win.
You run your own DNS on your phone or do you VPN your DNS queries?
If you don't mind adds but don't want to be tracked, e-mail the website admins and tell them so. They may not be aware their adds are tracking and switch to non-tracking ones. It's a long shot, but even if they don't change, at least you've regained your peace of mind knowing the website owners don't care if you see their adds.
While I appreciate your suggestion, that places a lot of burden me. After figuring out what email address to use, I have no guarantee that my email won't go straight to the bit bucket or worse, be flagged as spam. Trying to pay my bills is what takes up my time. Plus, I would have to think if these web site administrators don't understand the principles of tracking, then they're incompetent.
https://www.google.com
End-to-end encryption keeps them from knowing squat about your browsing habits other than the fact that you prefer Google. Of course, Google knows all.
You'll have to run your own DNS or else they'll still know.
After I installed Ghostery, I was amazed at how many trackers some sites use. One site I went to had 32 trackers. After disabling most of them, guess what. No ads, which was really not my goal. I don't mind the ads since I figure that helps a site pay for itself, but I'm not a Facebook user and I don't want FB tracking me.
And another thought, all that tracking is sure going to eat into any bandwidth cap.
+1 Insightful
Balance is the key.
I worked for a company that couldn't fire a union worker even though he was caught stealing a truck load of paint from the company. Had a conversation with another union worker who said he worked for the union.
Sounds like you've never shopped at Newegg. Each product has details, reviews, and lots of photos. Nicely laid out. Once you've been to Newegg you wonder why Amazon, Wal-mart, Tiger, and other can't do as well.
And so we wind up with a browser that doesn't let you set the default font size. Talk about an affront to Accessibility. I mean, as I get older I'm actually going blind. For real. I've been nearsighted all my life, and once you hit 40 years old you stop being able to see things up close. So font selection becomes this life-or-death thing: it can lock you out of the product completely. But the Chrome team is flat-out arrogant here: they want to build a zero-configuration product, and they're quite brazen about it, and Fuck You if you're blind or deaf or whatever. Hit Ctrl-+ on every single page visit for the rest of your life.
New stuff is fine; just let me have the old way (i.e. status bar, menu, View>Page Source) and don't send me to about:config
Furthermore, if our much-vaunted, Constitutionally-protected "free press" (term used very loosely) had not sold out or fallen down on the job, we might be able to make better decisions. Knowledge is power.
I think our "free press" found out is was more fun to "program" us than "inform" us.
Pick your own analogy:
So, when the PS3 came out, there were how many hundreds of PS3 titles already available, because you could play PS2 games on the original PS3?
So, when the XBOX360 came out, there were how many hundreds of XBOX360 titles already available, because you could play XBOX games on it?
So, when the Wii came out, there were how many hundreds of Wii titles already available, because you could play GameCube games on it?
Wut? This has nothing to do with cars!
I'm going for +1 Playful
Starting around middle school I stopped saying "under god".
Oh, you rebel, you!
Those of us who support raising taxes on the wealthy (a majority of Americans, by the way)
[citation required]
Am I feeding the troll?
It all goes to a good cause- underprivileged kids, outdated hospital systems, and people who live literally in the middle of nowhere.
Theoretically yes. What happens in actuality? Is the money being spend for the purpose it was collected?
Chrome X might pass just fine but Chrome Y not.
So it's a male?
Sorry, I didn't file a bug report. I thought it was so obvious that surely someone would file one. It's been there since about two releases ago.
I did find a link tough.
Oh, BTW, thanks for all the work you and the FireFox team do.